Google Chrome Will Stop Videos From Playing In Background Tabs

Trending News: Google Will Get Rid Of One Of The Most Annoying Things About Browsing The Internet

Why Is This Important?

Because pop-ups need to be eliminated from this planet.

Long Story Short

Google will bring out a feature to stop audio and video from playing in background tabs.

Long Story

You’re hard at work on something and boom, blaring music or a voices start playing. No, it’s not from around the office nor is it a remix to the song you’re listening to — it’s an annoying pop-up ad and for Google Chrome users it’s soon to be no more.

CNN Money reports that Google will release a new feature to stop sounds and video from playing in background tabs. So for instance, you are watching a YouTube video and open another video in another tab. The unopened tab won’t start playing until you get there. This also goes for random ads on pages so tiny you can’t find them and for CNN itself who auto plays its videos on some news stories.

By doing this, Chrome will reduce the memory taken up on your computer and hopefully make things go faster on slower computers. Also, for those unfortunate enough to be in a place where you pay per browsing data usage (looking at you Canada), this could keep you under the data limit.

Google has already made the change available on some beta users, but it will be added automatically for all users on September 1.

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